More frightening are the web pages you get searching for [natty disable
application menu].  The top match has you moving shared libraries
around.   Several others have you setting environment variables, or
"simply" doing a whole bunch of removing and add operations.  This page
is in the top 10 and is the only one recommended removing the indicator-
appmenu package.  To mlaverdiere's point, there are 6 different packages
with "indicator-app" in their name plus several more related ones.

You get the app menus foisted on you even if you choose "classic"
desktop.  I don't think it is particularly fair doing that since no
desktop ever existed with them in the past so it can't be classic!

And most importantly 'apt-get remove --purge indicator-appmenu' doesn't
actually work.  In classic desktop you will get the menus on the apps,
but the first login gives a message asking you to delete a panel item,
and the panel has a "No indicators" item permanently present you can't
get rid of.

(My own use case for turning them off is that I have large screens with
many windows open and use focus follows mouse.  appmenu is unusable for
that combination.)

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  Natty:  Users should be able to easily turn off (disbable) global menu

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